jodrell bank radio telescope the rural countryside cheshire england

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Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in the rural countryside of Cheshire England Royalty Free Stock Photo

Cafe in Discovery Centre at Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in the rural countryside of Cheshire England Royalty Free Stock Photo

Jodrell Bank Radio telescope in the rural countryside of Cheshire England

Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope is a British observatory that hosts a number of radio telescopes, and is part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Sir Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the University of Manchester who wanted to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar during the Second World War. It has since played an important role in the research of meteors, quasars, pulsars, masers and gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age.